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Art Works of Judy Chicago, Nam June Paik, Robert Smithson and Bruce Nauman

This world is full of different concepts, ideas and emotions that artists tries to express in their works. Every each one has it is own unique way and in this assignment I learned about some Earth Art, Conceptual Art, Visual and Installation Art.
The first artist I want to write about is Paik, Nam June who was born in 1932 in Korean. He is an American performer and conceptual artist works mainly with video, integrating visual images with music. His works like Fin de Siecle II, Three Elements and Electronic Super Highway incorporated hundreds of television monitors, challenging the viewer with many unforgettable images and sounds. Holding a magnet to the face of a TV screen distorts the picture in strange and wonderful ways.
Reconsidering and challenging our ideas about the way television or video should appear or perform is the main idea of Nam June Paik's art. He was educated as a musician in Japan and Europe and in 1964 he arrived in New York to bring his ideas in ...

Posted by: Gelinde Cobbs

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